Sentences with phrase «nuclear hazards of»

Nuclear hazards of all kind are excluded from the policy.

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Many people don't understand that compared to any number of other daily hazards, nuclear power has harmed very few.
It is commonly recognized that the radioactivity and extreme toxicity of nuclear reactor postfission effluent and spent fuel rods constitute a hazard to human health and safety.
Science has created a map that provides a snapshot of the number of nuclear reactors in operation and under construction worldwide, locations of power plants in relation to seismic hazard zones, and reactions to events in Japan in some countries.
Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.
In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is giving plant operators in central and eastern parts of the country 18 months to revise their hazard assessments, following a new report reconsidering the risks posed by the region's geological faults.
To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.
The GRL paper notes other potential applications of using the dark fiber, including urban seismic hazard analysis, global seismic imaging, offshore submarine volcano detection, nuclear explosion monitoring, and microearthquake characterization.
A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academy of Sciences concludes that the overarching lesson learned from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident is that nuclear plant licensees and their regulators must actively seek out and act on new information about hazards with the potential to affect the safety of nuclear plants.
Finer understanding of risk from natural hazards is critical to averting future nuclear disasters
Speakers will discuss the contributions of the marine and environmental sciences communities in assessing and communicating to the public and policymakers the effects of similar disasters in ROK and the United States, where nuclear reactors are at risk from similar natural hazards.
Task force member Gary Holahan, deputy director of NRC's Office of New Reactors, said yesterday that the group concluded that action was needed to remedy the kinds of inconsistent performance by nuclear plant operators where safety measures covering extreme hazards were covered by voluntary guidelines.
If you like, you can even endorse your The Village At Fox Creek to cover open perils, which insures against risk of direct physical loss by any cause, subject to exclusions such as nuclear hazards and intentional acts.
That exclusion in the original policy form speaks to ordinance or law, earth movement, certain types of water damage, power failure, neglect, war, nuclear hazard, intentional loss, governmental action, fungi, other microbes, and rot.
Generally floaters are written on an open perils basis which means that, save for exclusions such as nuclear hazard, the property is covered regardless of the cause of loss.
That means that coverage would apply regardless of the cause of direct physical loss, except for excluded causes such as a nuclear hazard — not a large risk on Amarillo, TX Renters Insurance.
If you have open perils coverage, of course, that list is much longer because open perils covers any losses that aren't specifically excluded, such as nuclear hazard.
Nuclear hazard, for example, will always be excluded, but if you look at some of the policy forms offered by the «inexpensive insurance providers» you might be surprised at what's not covered.
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In the aftermath of the 2010 Chilean tsunami (which reached Japan) and only three months before the March 2011 Japanese tsunami and nuclear accident, the operator of the Fukushima plant had completed an internal tsunami hazard study that concluded, «We assessed and confirmed the safety to the nuclear power plant.»
«Our campaign stressing the hazards of nuclear power will supply a rationale for increasing regulation... and add to the cost of the industry,» he wrote.
By and large people don't understand the hazards involved in all types of energy generation, but they understand the hazards involved in nuclear the least.
«Our campaign stressing the hazards of nuclear power,» the then - Executive Director of the Sierra Club wrote in a confidential 1974 memo to the Board of Directors, «will supply a rationale for increasing regulation... and add to the cost of the industry.»
But these criticisms in turn have to be weighed up against the potential hazards of nuclear waste disposal and nuclear meltdown (which are admittedly rare, but devastating nonetheless).
The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.
But now, perhaps more seriously, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) and the Environment Agency are worried about the potential for a «major event» arising from part of Sellafield's «high hazard, high risk» area.
His message sounds authoritative since he is an expert of climate change, but he is neither an expert of nuclear power technology nor one of hazards of radioactive nuclides.
Aside from the public perception that nuclear power plants are an enormous potential hazard, the high initial cost of these plants and the high cost of closing them when they get old works against attracting investment.
But the study in Joule excludes nuclear power because of the high costs, the hazards and the problems of disposing of waste.
And we can't be proposing to address the hazards of climate change by introducing and relying on the risks in nuclear weaponry.
events, there was: a weather hazard recorded for Jordan Montana, where the temperature fell to minus 41 degrees Celsius; a continuation of the nuclear biohazard at Fukushima, Japan; an earthquake registered in El Guarco Valley, Costa Rica, severity as yet unknown; a severe weather event — a hailstorm in Woolgoolga, Australia; and something called «an event into space» in Greece, which, the last time such a thing was noted back in November, was ultimately explained by RSOE this way:
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Nor do they typically cover losses due to floods, mudslides, water damage from sewer backups, damage resulting from war or nuclear hazard, neglect, earthquakes, power failures, seepage, dry rot, or vermin.Homeowner insurance does not provide general free legal advice under the liability portion of the policy, however low cost legal insurance may be an interesting option to compliment your coverage.
Generally floaters are written on an open perils basis which means that, save for exclusions such as nuclear hazard, the property is covered regardless of the cause of loss.
In the event of a loss caused by nuclear hazard, to be honest, you've probably got bigger problems than what your Renters Insurance or jewelry insurance covers.
If you have open perils coverage, of course, that list is much longer because open perils covers any losses that aren't specifically excluded, such as nuclear hazard.
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But a single glance at the Hanford Nuclear Site is a keen reminder of the risks and hazards out here in Benton County.
Common exclusions are things like nuclear hazard, which was excluded for some very interesting reasons that are outside of the scope of this article but we'll address in the next few days.
Nuclear hazard, for example, will always be excluded, but if you look at some of the policy forms offered by the «inexpensive insurance providers» you might be surprised at what's not covered.
Other items that are typically not covered by a high risk commercial truck insurance or high risk truck insurance policy, unless added by additional endorsement, are the same as those found with most types of policies, such as Nuclear Hazard, or any type of War or Military Action.
NWR broadcasts warnings and post-event information for all types of hazards: weather (e.g., tornadoes, floods), natural (e.g., earthquakes, forest fires and volcanic activity), technological (e.g., chemical releases, oil spills, nuclear power plant emergencies, etc.), and national emergencies (e.g., terrorist attacks).
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